In Depth
A podcast by First Round - Thursdays

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140 Episodes
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Building a hybrid go-to-market motion — GC Lionetti’s lessons from Confluent, Dropbox & Atlassian
Published: 10/7/2021 -
Creating physical products and getting feedback from toddlers — KiwiCo’s Sandra Oh Lin
Published: 9/30/2021 -
How to hire the right marketer at the right time for your startup — Mux & Segment’s Maya Spivak
Published: 9/16/2021 -
From developer to CMO — Archana Agrawal’s marketing lessons from Airtable & Atlassian
Published: 9/9/2021 -
How to pivot your way to product/market fit & other 0-1 lessons — Rupa Health CEO Tara Viswanathan
Published: 9/2/2021 -
Building an operationally-intensive business and avoiding upside down unit economics — Thirty Madison’s Steve Gutentag
Published: 8/19/2021 -
Don’t have a UX research team? Jane Davis’ tips from Zoom, Zapier & Dropbox to get you started
Published: 8/12/2021 -
Getting startup employees to stick around & learning from couples therapy — Flatiron’s Alex Buder Shapiro
Published: 7/29/2021 -
How to find product/market fit before you start building — UserLeap’s Ryan Glasgow
Published: 7/22/2021 -
Nick Caldwell on the engineering cultures that power Microsoft, Reddit, Looker & Twitter
Published: 7/15/2021 -
“Everyone wants a silver bullet” — Selling lessons from Sam Taylor, of Dropbox, Quip & now Loom
Published: 7/8/2021 -
The do’s and don’ts of scaling from dozens of employees to thousands — McKenna Quint
Published: 6/24/2021 -
A look at one repeat founder’s frameworks for validating ideas — Pilot’s Waseem Daher
Published: 6/17/2021 -
Killing stories and creating categories — Comms tips from Shannon Brayton’s 25+ years in tech
Published: 6/10/2021 -
People leaders aren’t the CEO of culture, they’re product managers — Credit Karma’s Colleen McCreary
Published: 6/3/2021 -
Go unreasonably deep on complex problems and build with naivety — Bowery Farming’s Irving Fain
Published: 5/26/2021 -
The story behind Slack’s marketing and the leap from marketer to CEO — Abstract’s Kelly Watkins
Published: 5/20/2021 -
Ask why it won’t work — Rick Song’s lessons from Square and building from 0 to 1
Published: 5/13/2021 -
Product Pitfalls From 0 Customers to the Messy Middle and IPO — Eric Berg on Okta, Intel & Fauna
Published: 5/6/2021 -
After leading product & growth teams at Instacart, Wealthfront & LinkedIn, Elliot Shmukler is tackling zero to one as founder & CEO of Anomalo
Published: 4/29/2021
Welcome to In Depth, a new podcast from First Round Review that’s dedicated to surfacing the tactical advice founders and startup leaders need to grow their teams, their companies and themselves. Hosted by Brett Berson, a partner at First Round, In Depth will cover a lot of ground and a wide range of topics, from hiring executives and becoming a better manager, to the importance of storytelling inside of your organization. But every interview will hit the level of tactical depth where the very best advice is found. We hope you’ll join us. Subscribe to “In Depth” now and learn more at firstround.com